Cesar Chavez timeline Jorge Portillo

  • Cesar Chavez was born

    Cesar Chavez was born

    Cesar Chavez was born in Arizona and his family was really poor worked as migrant workers. and they were raising chickens, watermelons, and vegetables. but Cesar Chavez went broke
  • Cesar family went broke

    Cesar family went broke

    In the great depression Cesar Chavez family went broke and they had to work as a migrant workers and they traveled to southern California. picking crops with his parents and siblings
  • Cesar education pattern

    Cesar education pattern

    Cesar Chavez had attended more than 30 schools during the age of 11-15 because Cesar family moved so often and never stayed at school enough time.
  • left the Navy

    left the Navy

    Chavez left from the Navy and returned to his family in Delano, where he went back to work in the fields. At this time, Chavez joined his first union, the National Agricultural Workers Union.
  • NFLU

    NFLU

    The Chavez family joined the National Farm Labor Union NFLU and participated in a cotton strike
  • CSO

    CSO

    Joined the CSO to formally help others. Helped Mexican Americans to register as voters. Put up citizenship classes and ran errands when ever the organization needed help.
  • NFWA

    NFWA

    The National Farm Workers Association) was born, to create another organization to advance the cause of farmers.
  • International Grape Boycott Day

    International Grape Boycott Day

    The UFW declared May 10th International Grape Boycott Day. Throughout the year, shipments of California table grapes werent able to ship the grapes to any other state
  • cesar chavez death

    cesar chavez death

    Past away in his sleep